Software Engineer (iOS) in
Barcelona

Job Description

Who we are?

Motorcycle taxis are immensely popular and serve as the
lifeblood of many cities in Africa, but they are extremely unsafe and
disorganized. At the click of a button, SafeBoda provides a safe, more
convenient, mobile-first transportation platform for Africa’s booming
young population. Based in Kampala & Nairobi, we are a Series-A
funded fast growing ride-hailing platform that is having huge impact for
millions in East Africa.

In 2016, we launched our platform on Heroku with a MongoDB, PHP backend
with front ends on web, iOS, and Android. In 2018, our daily ride
numbers increased 30x. We are now in the process of raising Series B
financing and are going to use it to modernize the engineering platform
and upgrade our backend technology operations.

We have a passionate and highly engaged team based mainly in East Africa
and we are looking to quickly grow the Barcelona team to speed-up the
growth and make sure we can build exciting verticals on the SafeBoda
platform. We're searching for engineers who are looking for the
opportunity to work for an international company, as well as the
challenge of being an early member of our Barcelona team.

Our stack

We are currently migrating our legacy back-end application from
PHP to Elixir and breaking the monolith into Elixir umbrella apps. We
use Postgres as our main database but use MongoDb for some parts of the
application. We cache heavily with Redis. Our web applications are built
with Angular but we're slowly moving to Vue.Js. Kotlin and Swift are
the language of choice for our Android and iOS apps respectively.

What You Will Do

Own your work: lead projects from concept to completion. You’re in control of your own success.

Excellent communication skills - you can spar with engineers, product owners and other stakeholders

English language fluency

Nice to have

Knowledge of Reactive Extentions (Rx)

Experience with MVVM architecture

Perks

Be part of a passionate team that is changing the mobility landscape in Africa.

Opportunity to travel to East Africa and interact with the product and our multi-cultural team.

We believe that distance is not a barrier to build a great company
culture - we replicate our last Friday of the months drinks at our
different offices and can't wait to have our first inter-continent
ping-pong tournament.

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